Improvement in children s cribs



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CHILDRENSJCRIBS.

Patented June 20,1876.

N.PETERS. PHOTO L THOGRAPM STATES PATENT FFIGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHILDRENS CRIBS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. [78,945, dated une 20,1876; application filed May 18, 1876.

- cheap, easily taken to pieces, and compactly packed fortransportation, and provided with, means which allow netting to be usedwithout interfering with ventilation.

The accompanying drawing represents a crib made in accordance with myinvention,

Figurel is a perspective view of the crib. Figs. 2 and 3 are like viewsof the several parts of the crib when taken apart and ready for packingor trans 'lortation.

A are the ends of the crib, each being a counterpart of the other. Eachend is formed, as shown,with rails d, end posts a, and legs I), towhich, if desired, a rocker, 0, may be fitted. Above the rails and poststhe end tapers to a point, this tapering portion 6 rising some distanceabove the rails. The tops of the tapering parts 6 of the crib areconnected by a longitudinal brace or bar, f, whose ends fit in socketsformed in the parts 0, and are there held by screws 9. The side rails hof the crib are held between the end piecesA, the ends of the railsfitting in sockets in the end pieces, and being there held by screws t.The bottom of the crib is formed by slats or rods j,

which fit in holes or sockets formed for them mit of the crib being airyand roomy, even when covered with mosquito-netting. I am also enabled touse in the construction of the Gothic ends cuttings and pieces'which arevalueless for other purposes.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1s

The herein described cradle, consisting of the Gothic end pieces and topbraces, side rails, and bottom bar's, constructed, fitted to- W gether,and arranged as shown and set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 29th day ofApril, 1876.

. HENRY OOORR. Witnesses: 7

JO N G. BRUSH, A. L. RONOHE.

